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Today is Friday, Dec. 30, the 364th day of 2005 with one to follow.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A survey finds that U.S. cell phone users are getting more comfortable with text messaging -- and with getting emotional via text message.
TUJUNGA, Calif., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A California musician has bought the ultimate fixer-upper, a fake French chateau built more than 75 years ago near Los Angeles.
IPSWICH, S.D., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A South Dakota veterinarian and bow-hunting enthusiast with two artificial legs used his walker to drag a record-breaking buck to a clearing.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A plan to feature the Indiana governor's mansion as the Decorators' Show House of 2006 has broken down because the decorators' plans were too showy.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Brooklyn teen says her accusation that neighbors heartlessly tormented her and her mom because of their small stature was just a tall tale.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- California students reportedly are increasingly being begged, bribed and badgered to go to class and it's not only for educational purposes.
SARASOTA SPRINGS, N.Y., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A telemarketer called to offer an Illinois man a mortgage and wound up tossing him a lifeline instead.
MERILLVILLE, Ind., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An Indiana woman discovered five days before Christmas that the company that pays her pension believed she had been dead for a month.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A British survey finds that men have far more time to sleep, play computer games, spend time with friends and watch television than women.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A college student jailed for three weeks after she was caught with condoms filled with flour has sued the Philadelphia police.
MIAMI, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Television stardom has blown the cover of Miami's most famous real-life police officer.
